Or are they just greedy bastards?

@Koulibiak Where in earth do you find a side of salmon that feeds six or seven people , with leftovers for another meal? 😆😆😆. I've yet to see a side of salmon that would feed four and not leave them feeling a bit peckish.

I usually just eat half a strand of spaghetti and dip my finger in the bolognaise and lick it and I’m stuffed! But then I just sit on my arse all day doing office work only moving my eyeballs so I don’t need the calories.

Also, 500g mince makes 6 servings of pasta bolognaise or lasagna in this household. So 1kg = 12 portions. Greedy pigs.

Can’t get my head around this! A side of salmon is dinner for six or seven, plus enough leftovers for salmon pasta later that week for 2-4. So he ate 10 main-course-sized meals, of something he doesn’t like much, in one sitting? 😳 how does that even work. It is, indeed, insane

(As an aside, side of salmon roasted with harissa and honey is spectacular and so easy to make - 20 minutes in oven and perfect hosting dish)

Absolutely!!

500g appears to feed a family of 12 for five separate meals.

Maybe find cheaper ways to get the calories in, yes if money is an issue.

Or… the men can do this for themselves?

I guess people are trying to be helpful, but the issue here isn’t that the poor men are underfed. OP has provided a ton of food. The issue is greedy, selfish, thoughtless men.

We really need to stop pandering to male greed and selfishness.

"What's for dinner tonight, Darling?"

Spaghetti Bolognese.

"But we had that last night..."

You catch on quick, don't you?

They can cook for tomorrow then.

Their turn to.cook for a while

Boys and young men who are very active (gym etc) eat a lot. For men working manual labour jobs and having just a wrap at lunch that doesn’t sound like a lot to me, maybe not every day but after a particularly tiring day. If they had office jobs it would be completely different. They should have left more for you though.
I have a friend who has 3 boys and she always comments on how she can’t keep up with feeding them and how I am lucky I have girls. They are lean and very active. I mean I wouldn’t want anyone in my house to go to bed hungry. Maybe find cheaper ways to get the calories in, yes if money is an issue.

Large portions then because 500g feeds 3 plus 3 frozen portions.

unbelievably rude if you ask me.

Yes - and do they ask you? And do you tell them it’s unbelievably rude to behave like this?? Why would you ever cook for people like this?

Cannot get my head around it at all.

@HunterDuke I’m sure, if you say so, your husband is a lovely man in all other ways. But you can’t be surprised if people are, at the very least, completely baffled by the salmon story, if not disgusted. I mean, how does an adult see a whole side of salmon that somebody else has cooked and not even question what it might be for before tucking in? It brings to mind some weird Alice in Wonderland scenario in which people are just wandering around and randomly consuming whatever food or drink they find in their path. Completely bonkers.

Maybe you have a bigger food budget. I wouldn’t be feeding the foxes, I’d be feeding the freezer.

Not in mine. 6 portions max. We’d all rather have meat than pasta, though.

Don’t think I could make 500g mince feed 12, honestly. Maybe 6?

Sounds like a keeper with an eccentric salmon habit!

So great 🤣

And yes I know the feeling as I live with two men. In the last few weeks I have times when one decides he doesn’t want something I have just cooked and goes out and gets a takeaway after it’s dished up …unbelievably rude if you ask me. And other times they can both eat the lot and not even consider if I’ve had enough or that it was for two days.

As for bread, cheese, milk and margarine I can’t keep up! I do a big shop for a fortnight those things are gone in three days.

The one that really got me though was I spent a couple of hours making a really lovely ratatouille for myself as a special treat. it was to be my main for two days and a small portion for either of them for one day if they fancied it. It is not a meal one of them would ever eat so that was fine by me and they can both sort out their own food. But oh no I go back out to the kitchen and it’s all gone…..the one who doesn’t like it had picked through it and put the bits he doesn’t like, ie nearly everything, in the bin! I literally lost the plot I was so angry as I never waste food and that cost me a fortune and was mine. So selfish 😡

Regardless of what you ‘add’
500g for 12 is only afew spoonfuls of mince

Precisely what I was thinking

Horror! I don’t always use real mince either! Once I’ve added pancetta, all the veg and some lentils all is good.

And carrot and celery-all adds up

Yep-by the time I’ve added pancetta, onions, peppers, a couple of tins of tomatoes and some lentils to bulk. Happy days.

Exactly, it's about him thinking he deserves ALL the food he wants and acts like if she hasn't said no then it's all good game.

Fuck that and him and the fucking salmon he stuffed himself with!
If my husband did that I'd feed him fish every bloody meal until he was sick of it.

This behaviour is not cute nor funny or excusable because the menz just have no self control... it's fundemental disrespect and selfishness.

He doesn't see you as his equal, he would take and take and take ALL the resources for himself of he could get away with it.

Disgusting.

@Sharptonguedwoman no, he's very athletic and slim. I'm regretting saying now as he's neither selfish nor greedy in his life or in relation to me. He just had a day when he did this. It doesn't really matter. There was no intent or malice, it was thoughtless at worst. I was only trying to let OP know she's not the only one

I cook normal portions for us, 2 adults. I always give OH more, so he gets 2/3, I have 1/3. I tend to put his on his plate first and there have been many occasions when he has tried to take my third before I have put it on my plate. He would eat EVERYTHING if I let him. He has no idea of portion control.

It's not a portion control issue if you cook dinner, serve him his, and then before you serve yours he tries to take that as well. It's just unbelievable selfishness.
It's not about portion size - if it was he'd be maybe a bit disappointed that dinner wouldn't fill him up, and he'd have something else later. No remotely reasonable person thinks "this isn't enough food, so I'll just take my OH's so she has nothing to eat".